I agree with blending the site to match the ads. But if you go to your account you can make the ads any way you want to. So how do you choose what colors are the best? I was looking up colors and be peoples natural instinct to them and on 1 website it said red would basicaly make people click the link. Alot of people dont realize how important color schemes can be. But also think it may also make a difference with whatever your niche is. If your dealing with nature you might want certain shades of green , light blue ect... But hey i havent experienced a big difference so what do i know lol
People do crap like this and then the next day they come posting threads saying Google banned them for no reason, What a retard.
I run tattoo sites with a lot of pictures. I border all ads in the galleries or make sure they are in distinctly separate modules. Look at the ad placement on lovetoknow.com. Notice that they do have ads next to pictures and everything is in borders.
I have images that are 400 pixels wide and either above or below are adsense ads. Is that against the TOS as well or is it just thumbnails besides the adsense ads?
I would advise you to get rid of this image thing ASAP believe me they wont forgive you n you'll shortly get a banned adsense notice from them.